I'm also looking into the Microtik gear, do you mind telling me more about your experience? I'm planning a fiber and cat6a into their spf 5-port for the shed, looking for a switch recommendation to solidify the network backend from the home office to the basement.
I work with some cisco gear at work, but I'm no network engineer (though I've wrote a few wireshark plugins for analyzing data over an avionics network).
Mikrotik's RouterOS is very flexible on what it can do, but aside from the preconfigured "QuickSet" modes it'll take a bit of RTFM to figure out how to make it do what you want. At least it seemed that way to me. After configuring a few, I'm starting to find my way around it a bit better. Also, their "WinBox" app for configuration is super handy... it can work using MAC instead of IP, so if you booger up your IP config it'll still talk to let you un-booger it. (or, as one I recently did, upon first applying the desired changes it wiped the device's IP, so I had to go back and re-set it)
Currently have one of these:
MikroTik makes networking hardware and software, which is used in nearly all countries of the world. Our mission is to make existing Internet technologies faster, more powerful and affordable to wider range of users.
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and two of these:
MikroTik makes networking hardware and software, which is used in nearly all countries of the world. Our mission is to make existing Internet technologies faster, more powerful and affordable to wider range of users.
mikrotik.com
The CRS326 is the main switch (replaced an older version that got fried by a lightning strike), one of the RB2011's is in the basement with my desk and ham radio stuff, other one is destined for my workshop as soon as I trench some fiber out there.
